New site, new name, new blog, new start

For a while, I haven't had a blog (well, technically, I still have my old lj, but lj feels like a bit of a ghost town these days, and I felt like I ought to set up a blog somewhere else). I haven't been blogging, either--maybe because I haven't had a blog--but I'd like to be blogging, or, at least, not to be in a position where wood-be blog posts go unwritten for lack of a blog. For a while, I didn't create one because I couldn't decide where to put it. Analysis paralysis. Anyhow, in this instance, doing something seems preferable to doing nothing, and this is something, for now.

In the future, it is hard for me to imagine that the present won't be thought of as a time between two eras. What the future will look like isn't very clear to me, as I think it unlikely that a sentient observer from the mesozoic era would have accurately predicted what the future would look like a hundred million years hence, but, given our society's inherent instability, it seems reasonable to conclude that, while there will be some similarities, there will also be significant differences, some of which are unimaginable in the present. Thus, in the future, the present will be viewed in ways that have similarities to the ways in which we might view the mesozoic era; hence the title of this blog.